Game Ranch Management has become an indispensable guide for nature reserve managers and current and future owners of wildlife ranches since the first edition appeared in 1988. It is being used as a textbook by undergraduate and postgraduate students doing degrees or modules in wildlife management and ranching at tertiary institutions across southern Africa, and is internationally used as a reference book. All the chapters have been updated and some have been expanded to reflect the latest information and practices, and new authors and chapters were added where applicable.
The following new chapters have been added:
The following chapters have been expanded greatly:
Part I General guidelines
Chapter 1 Important ecological principles and conservancies
Chapter 2 Setting objectives
Chapter 3 Ecological monitoring
Chapter 4 Geomorphology and climate of southern Africa
Chapter 5 The vegetation of South Africa
Part II Wildlife ranch planning
Chapter 6 Wildlife ranch acquisition and cattle ranch transformation
Chapter 7 Data management and environmental impact assessment
Chapter 8 Evolution and economic growth of the wildlife industry
Chapter 9 Habitat evaluation
Chapter 10 Fences
Chapter 11 Water
Chapter 12 Roads
Chapter 13 Airstrips
Chapter 14 Ground vehicles and aircraft
Chapter 15 Buildings and camping amenities
Chapter 16 Hides and lookout towers
Chapter 17 Bomas and holding pens
Part III Wildlife and their characteristics
Chapter 18 Smaller herbivores
Chapter 19 Large herbivores
Chapter 20 Combining wild and domestic herbivores
Chapter 21 Carnivores
Chapter 22 Birds
Chapter 23 Herbivore nutrition
Chapter 24 Intensive feeding of wildlife
Chapter 25 Genetic principles and tools for wildlife management
Part IV Infectious diseases of wildlife
Chapter 26 Viral, bacterial & protozoal diseases of wildlife
Chapter 27 Medical assistance in the field
Chapter 28 Post-mortem examination of wildlife
Chapter 29 Preventative disease management and epidemiology in wildlife
Chapter 30 The parasites of wildlife
